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Former Congresswoman Donna Edwards and NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali react to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision that she will stay in Congress but will not run for leadership.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has called for Republican leadership elections to be postponed until after the Georgia Senate run-off, telling 'Varney & Co.' that the midterm election results 'frustrate me out of my mind.'

In this wide-ranging conversation, director and documentarian Ken Burns discusses the hardline politics that voters rejected in the midterm elections, the history of violence in American politics, and his new photographic history book with MSNBC's Ari Melber. "History is not melodrama, it is tragedy," Burns tells Melber. It takes art, the lens of the photographer, to realise that it is neither and both. All of these traits describe us."

Constellation Research CEO Ray Wang talks Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter as well as Accountable Tech, a Clinton-linked dark money group that is pressing Twitter advertisers to abandon the site.

Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) joins Dana Bash to discuss how he believes former President Donald Trump cost the GOP a landslide victory in the midterm elections, despite CNN projecting Democrats will retain a slim Senate majority for the next two years.

Many far-right candidates that support Christian nationalism were defeated by voters. The increasing menace of Christian nationalism, however, persists in American politics. Rev. Dr. Serene Jones and MSNBC Columnist Anthea Butler joined Alicia Menendez on American Voices to explore how some Republican legislators are using religion to gain power.

Donald Trump launched his bid for the presidency of the United States in 2024, paving the way for a rematch with President Joe Biden. However, it comes at a time when Trump's standing inside the Republican Party is fractured.

On "The Evening Edit," former investment banker Carol Roth responds to allegations that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried donated money to the Democratic Party.

After the former US president revealed his intention to run again in 2024, Sky News commentator Chris Kenny claims that the "mercurial" Donald Trump will "further complicate the polarised politics of the United States." Indeed, he continued, "at a time when the western world, the free world, the liberal democracies of the globe, led by the US, are trying to assert their supremacy, to impose the global rules-based order." We still require American leadership, but it isn't as evident as it ought to be, and the domestic political climate in the US appears to have the potential to do so for some time. Will the Republican Party support Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis instead?

The American political system may have been meddled with by a dependable ally of the United States. According to a Washington Post study, the UAE manipulated U.S. foreign policy by taking advantage of flaws in the system, such as reliance on political donations and insufficient enforcement of rules meant to prevent foreign meddling. According to the study, some of the techniques resemble "espionage." Three unnamed persons who were said to have viewed the identical secret document in the newspaper article were referenced three times.

In the Arizona governor's race, Republican Kari Lake has narrowed the distance on Democrat Katie Hobbs, but her chances of winning are getting less.

US President Joe Biden known as on Americans to unite against "political violence and voter intimidation" in his midterm speech on Wednesday. His remarks about defending electoral integrity come a week out from midterm elections. Biden's speech comes a week after an intruder broke into the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an apparent try to maintain her hostage. Upon realizing the senior Democrat herself used to be out of town, the intruder attacked her husband, Paul.

The American government has traditionally been governed by just two political parties. Only two independent senators from the 117th Congress were Democrats' caucus members. Additionally, it has been more than 50 years since a presidential candidate from neither the Democratic nor Republican Parties received any electoral votes. Some scholars contend that the political polarisation we observe in America may be due to the two-party system. The system is becoming more and more unpopular with Americans. Nearly 4 in 10 Americans said they would want to have more political party options, according to a 2022 research. As a result of the two-party system, Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at New America, remarked, "You have to choose one side or the other." "You don't really have a democracy anymore," said one party, "if we are in a scenario where one party considers that the other party winning the race would be so devastating to the country that maybe we should interfere to prevent the other party from winning." What type of changes might result from the United States abandoning its two-party system? To learn more, see the video.

The midTermerode elections are one way that America takes its temperature and perhaps the greatest news of the night was that Trump fever seems to have broken. The ex-President was not on the ballot but he was strong enough to force dozens of Republicans candidates into a Faustian Pact, promise them they would sway the public with lies about his accomplishments if only they supported him and if they did they would keep the House. In the end, it didn’t work in crucial races, the Democrats keep their House majority and at this moment Trump also holds the power controlling both Houses.

American democracy appears unstable as long as Donald Trump and his allies continue to erroneously assert that the 2020 election was rigged. How will the midterm elections alter the landscape for the 2024 presidential election given the election-deniers vying for office and numerous additional voting restrictions?